CHI '94 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Patients' online communities experiences of emergent Swedish self-help on the internet
Communities and technologies
Journal of Management Information Systems
Requirements for building accessible web-based communities for people with functional diversity
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Designing and evaluating online communities for promoting self-management of chronic low back pain
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Designing and evaluating online communities: research speaks to emerging practice
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Towards mobile communities for cancer patients: the case of krebsgemeinschaft.de
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Learning surgical interventions by navigating in virtual reality case spaces
ICCS'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Computational science: PartIII
Dulwich onview: an art museum-based virtual community generated by the local community
EVA'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
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Web-based learning communities allow individuals to improve their skills and knowledge, while offering global distribution of participants and asynchronous participation. Although flexible and distributed, the learning process in such communities is still unidirectional from professors to students. In virtual communities that relate to healthcare, learning and personal improvement is a collaborative process and actions are patient-centric. This work introduces the notion of 'self-supportive virtual communities' – which combine the merits of 'communities of practice' and 'learning communities' and capitalise on the virtual community infrastructures in order to support collaboration of all healthcare participants (i.e., care providers, caregivers and care consumers). This paper discusses the dimensions of the self-supportive community, illustrates the main issues for the transition to the new type of community and summarises the development process of the community. It also gives an example of a self-supportive community for the deaf and the hearing.